AFL Rd 6 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs GWS

[laj]

The Fantasia selection is taking the p...

Running out of choices. I'd have him in the 2s if we could.

We'll get the best out of him in the 2nd half of the year when he gets the feel properly of the game again. I'd have him in the 2s until then but we have run out of players.

[laj]

I like how we can cobble together a decent side still.

Just for comparison the ins and outs for this week's game compared to when we knocked off the Pies last year in Round 20:
OUT
Cerra
Docherty
McGovern
Saad
Dow
Marchbank
Martin
Motlop
Cunningham
Cincotta
Fogarty
In
Walsh
E.Hollands
Z.Williams
H.McKay
L.Cowan
L.Young
Fantasia
Boyd
Carroll
Durdin
Kennedy

[DJC]

I like how we can cobble together a decent side still.

Just for comparison the ins and outs for this week's game compared to when we knocked off the Pies last year in Round 20:
OUT
Cerra
Docherty
McGovern
Saad
Dow
Marchbank
Martin
Motlop
Cunningham
Cincotta
Fogarty
In
Walsh
E.Hollands
Z.Williams
H.McKay
L.Cowan
L.Young
Fantasia
Boyd
Carroll
Durdin
Kennedy

Yes, it seems that we have finally built up some decent depth ... but is it enough to knock off the best team in the comp?

Quietly confident 

[townsendcalling]

The teams that GWS have beaten don't actually make up a Cox Plate field.... An underdone Collingwood, North, WCE, Suns, St Kilda.
They are not in scintillating for and neither are we. 
We are most vulnerable against 6th - 12th ranked teams but seem to come to the party against the big dogs.
They are due to drop one, we are due to rebound!

[rocky]

The teams that GWS have beaten don't actually make up a Cox Plate field.... An underdone Collingwood, North, WCE, Suns, St Kilda.
They are not in scintillating for and neither are we. 
We are most vulnerable against 6th - 12th ranked teams but seem to come to the party against the big dogs.
They are due to drop one, we are due to rebound!

Not if we keep fumbling, dropping marks, miss hitting up targets and refuse to man up.

[ElwoodBlues1]

I wouldnt call GWS tough...got a few players who dont like it rough and disappear when it is, no doubting their skills but id be making it as contested as possible and picking players who excel in that area. Blues by 23 points....

[kruddler]

If we have to make a late change it's a pretty fair bet it won't be O'Keefe coming in....most likely it will be Cincotta, if he's fit.

Short memory Lods, i'm pretty sure i said the exact same thing last week except it was Pittonet instead of O'Keefe!

[Lods]

Short memory Lods, i'm pretty sure i said the exact same thing last week except it was Pittonet instead of O'Keefe!

I suspect there is still a bit of a difference between Pittonet and O'Keefe

Unless there is an issue with one of the rucks, O'Keefe is just there for show.
In the unlikely event that he does play it just reinforces the fact that the coaching group are committed to two rucks.

So that then begs the question....
If a coaching group that contains a Brownlow medallist and triple premiership mid-fielder with over 150 games of senior coaching, and years as an assistant at a moderately successful  Port...and our best ruckman this century think that there are times when the two ruck option should be used.
and
knowing the strengths and weaknesses, and fitness levels of both our ruckman far better than any of us.

Why are they on a different page to those questioning the two ruck set-up?

They're either as stubborn as mules, or they have a 'cunning' plan that depends on time for Pittonet and TDK to work together and develop a combination.
In all the games both have played probably less half have been together.

In the end they'll either work it out or abandon it.

[cookie2]

I wouldnt call GWS tough...got a few players who dont like it rough and disappear when it is, no doubting their skills but id be making it as contested as possible and picking players who excel in that area. Blues by 23 points....

Maybe Pitto will be our enforcer?

[Gointocarlton]

A little birdy tells me Kelly is doubtful.